Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 985180)

Wise words as always, Eric.:notworthy

Ah the delights of the Ovaltineys, Take Your Pick with Michael Miles, and the famous Infra Draw method by Horace Batchelor of K E Y N S H A M Bristol!

Those were the days! :tongue2:

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 985183)

But I was only a kid, so it was (teddy) bear at home - not old enough for the real thing to register!

Things are different now!

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 985260)

I myself was not of an age that I could imbibe, although I do remember the wagons coming around leaving crates of beer on doorsteps. It would not happen today, for numerous reasons.

I didn't have a teddy bear, I had an Archie Andrews ventriloquists dummy, I wasn't a ventriloquist, just strange.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 985284)

The strangest thing about Archie Andrews was that it was ventriloquism on the radio!

Actually I had a panda, not a teddy bear, but Brumas the baby polar bear was the big thing when I was a tot. She was born the day before my third birthday and I still have a thing about polar bears... see my signature!

Davenorts beer at home has been revived recently. Don't know how successful it's been.

Beer at home returns with ordering on-line « Express & Star

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 985304)

I know he was on the radio, but he did move to TV, and Peter Brough was rubbish at it, you could see his lips move, and he made no attempt to alter that fact. Still as a child these things didn't matter, I used to think Old Mother Riley was a woman, and Jimmy Clitheroe was really a child.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 985284)

The strangest thing about Archie Andrews was that it was ventriloquism on the radio!

Actually I had a panda, not a teddy bear, but Brumas the baby polar bear was the big thing when I was a tot. She was born the day before my third birthday and I still have a thing about polar bears... see my signature!

Davenorts beer at home has been revived recently. Don't know how successful it's been.

Beer at home returns with ordering on-line « Express & Star

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 985707)

Me too ... I have a polar bear ... And a Canadian Forces bear in UN gear ... and lions, pandas, gorillas ... all of them. I haven't had a recent head count, but I've got well over a hundred. And a great collection of Gainer the Gopher.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...the_Gopher.jpg

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 985709)

Oh Eric - so you really do have quite a lot of critters...

Recently we bought quite a lot of very soft stuffed rats and mice which serve a useful practical purpose - we use them to stuff between items of crockery etc in our motorhome to stop the rattles when we're moving. I wonder if we should get a cat to keep them under control?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 986817)

Nice and peaceful on here.

Why's that?

Exhausted themselves?

New term started?

Rehab?

Nice, though.

Originally Posted by Michael1954 (Post 986831)

It's the lull before the storm, Rindi!